Have you ever wondered why so many dogs seems to be suffering from weight issues? This excellent little book provides the answer modern dog food The author explains the effect processed dog food has on a dog's body & how by switching to a biologically appropriate diet the weight will literally drop off The diet itself couldn't be simpler You can get all the ingredients from a butcher or supermarket & it is easy & quick to prepare Best of all it works ...

Do you believe in lucky charms? While in Iraq US Marine Logan Thibault finds a photo half-buried in the dirt of a woman He carries it in his pocket & from then on his luck begins to change Back home Logan is haunted by thoughts of war Over time he becomes convinced that the woman in the photo holds the key to his destiny So he finds the vulnerable & loving Beth & a passionate romance begins But Logan battles with the one secret he has kept from Beth how he found her in the first place & it is a secret that could utterly destroy everything they love ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Zac Efron stars with Taylor Schilling & Blythe Danner in the romantic drama The Lucky One directed by Academy Award-nominated writerdirector Scott Hicks (" Shine") based on Nicholas Sparks& bestseller The Lucky One US Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault (Efron) returns from his third tour of duty in Iraq with the one thing he credits with keeping him alive-a photograph he found of a woman he doesn&t even know Discovering her name is Beth (Schilling) & where she lives he shows up at her door & ends up taking a job at her family-run local kennel Despite her initial mistrust & the complications in her life a romance develops between them giving Logan hope that Beth could be much more than his good luck charm Actors Zac Efron Taylor Schilling Blythe Danner Jay R Ferguson Riley Thomas Stewart Joe Chrest & Adam Le Fevre Director Scott Hicks Certificate 12 years & over Year 2012 Screen 2401 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages Castilian Spanish; German Subtitles English for the hearing impaired; Castilian Spanish; German for the hearing impaired Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 37 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Zac Efron stars with Taylor Schilling & Blythe Danner in the romantic drama The Lucky One directed by Academy Award-nominated writerdirector Scott Hicks (" Shine") based on Nicholas Sparks& bestseller The Lucky One US Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault (Efron) returns from his third tour of duty in Iraq with the one thing he credits with keeping him alive-a photograph he found of a woman he doesn&t even know Discovering her name is Beth (Schilling) & where she lives he shows up at her door & ends up taking a job at her family-run local kennel Despite her initial mistrust & the complications in her life a romance develops between them giving Logan hope that Beth could be much more than his good luck charm Actors Zac Efron Taylor Schilling Blythe Danner Jay R Ferguson Riley Thomas Stewart Joe Chrest & Adam Le Fevre Director Scott Hicks Certificate 12 years & over Year 2012 Screen 2401 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages Castilian Spanish; German Subtitles English for the hearing impaired; Castilian Spanish; German for the hearing impaired Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 37 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players

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Set mostly in lush heady Colombia but even in a jungle-like New York City they yoke together the fates of guerrilla soldiers rich kids rabbits hostages bourgeois expats & drug dealers Interconnected yet fractured in places the result is a narrative jigsaw puzzle with some of the pieces missing or a kaleidoscope where different characters spin into focus as they take turns to come into focus Her characters' voices are completely haunting
- & Pachico's playfulness with language & mastery of consciousness create a mesmerising collective atmosphere in this collection At once terse & tender with a manic crazed energy these stories will scalpel their way into your memory
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It's a windy autumn day & the forest friends are out catching falling leaves for luck Nim wants to break his all-time record of five lucky leaves before tea time 32 pages Hoskins David ...

It is 1866 & Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields On arrival he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes A wealthy man has vanished a whore has tried to end her life & an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk Moody is soon drawn into the mystery a network of fates & fortunes that is as complex & exquisitely patterned as the night sky The Luminaries is an extraordinary piece of fiction It is full of narrative linguistic & psychological pleasures & has a fiendishly clever & original structuring device Written in pitch-perfect historical register richly evoking a mid-19th century world of shipping & banking & goldrush boom & bust it is also a ghost story & a gripping mystery It is a thrilling achievement & will confirm for critics & readers that Catton is one of the brightest stars in the international writing firmament ...

Tracklist Sleep On The Floor Ophelia Cleopatra Gun Song Angela In The Light Gale Song Long Way From Home Sick In The Head My Eyes Patience ...

Colour is a given of most people&s everyday lives but at the same time it lies at the limits of language & understanding David Batchelor&s previous book for Reaktion Chromophobia addressed the extremes of love & loathing that colour has provoked since antiquity This book charts more ambiguous terrain The Luminous & the Grey is a study of the places where colour comes into being & where it fades away an inquiry into when colour begins & when it ends both in the material world & in the imagination Batchelor draws on a wide range of material including neuroscience philosophy literature film & the writings of artists; & makes use of his own experience as an artist who has worked with colour for more than twenty years After considering the place of colour in some creation myths in industrial chemistry in recent thinking on optics & in the specific forms of luminosity that saturate the modern city the book culminates in a meditation on the unique colour that is also a non-colour a mood a feeling an existential condition & even an insult grey ...

Led by Erasmus Darwin the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters tradesmen & artisans who met & made friends in the Midlands in the 1760s Most came from humble families all lived far from the centre of things but they were young & their optimism was boundless together they would change the world Among them were the ambitious toy-maker Matthew Boulton & his partner James Watt of steam-engine fame; the potter Josiah Wedgwood; the larger-than-life Erasmus Darwin physician poet inventor & theorist of evolution (a forerunner of his grandson Charles Darwin) Later came Joseph Priestley discoverer of oxygen & fighting radical Led by Erasmus Darwin they joined a small band of allies formed the Lunar Society of Birmingham (so called because it met at each full moon) & kick-started the Industrial Revolution Blending science art & commerce the Lunar Men built canals launched balloons named plants gases & minerals changed the face of England & the china in its drawing rooms & plotted to revolutionise its soul Jenny Uglow's The Lunar Men is a vivid & swarming group portrait that brings to life the friendships political passions love affairs & love of knowledge (and power) that drove these extraordinary men It echoes the thud of pistons & the wheeze & snort of engines & brings to life the tradesmen artisans & tycoons who shaped & fired the modern age Winner of the PEN Hessel-Tiltman prize for history & the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography The Lunar Men captures the creation of the modern world with lucid intelligence sympathy & wisdom Jenny Uglow is also the prize-winning author of Nature's Engraver Elizabeth Gaskell A Habit of Stories & most recently In These Times ...